Killing Me Softly (Roberta Flack album)

Killing Me Softly is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Roberta Flack, released on August 1, 1973, by Atlantic Records. She recorded the album with producer Joel Dorn for 18 months. The album was dedicated to Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

Killing Me Softly
Studio album by
Roberta Flack
ReleasedAugust 1, 1973
Studio
  • Regent Sound, New York City
  • Atlantic, New York City
GenreSoul, blues, R&B
Length40:57
LabelAtlantic
ProducerJoel Dorn
Roberta Flack chronology
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
(1972)
Killing Me Softly
(1973)
Feel Like Makin' Love
(1975)
Singles from Killing Me Softly
  1. "Killing Me Softly with His Song"
    Released: January 21, 1973
  2. "Jesse"
    Released: November 8, 1973

Killing Me Softly reached number three on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape and number two on the Soul LPs chart. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album gold on August 27, 1973, and double platinum on January 30, 2006, denoting shipments of two million copies in the United States. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, which it lost to Stevie Wonder's 1973 album Innervisions. The album's title track was released as a single and topped the Billboard Hot 100. It won the 1974 Grammy Award for Record of the Year.

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